Striving and Surviving

Drawing on data the author gathered in Honduras and the United States from weekly time diaries, in-depth interviews, participant observation and interpretive focus groups, she looks specifically at the experience and prospects of transmigrant labor in the United States;

the aspirations and consumption practices of transnational family members in the United States and Honduras, especially as they relate to the American Dream;

and she explores the ways in which families negotiate caretaking responsibilities, both financial and emotional, while striving and surviving in a transnational space.

This is the first daily life study of undocumented immigrants and the first transnational analysis of Honduran families.